“MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN, MORE ROBOT THAN ROBOT”: CYBORG IMAGERY IN ACCELERACTIONIST AESTHETICS
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ABSTRACT: the present article aims to analyze, in science fiction, the portrait of the cyborg character who, in our understanding, is the being who is beyond dualities such as organic-artificial, human-robot, nature-technology, and also criticizes the classic notion of subject. To talk about the cyborg, we will undertake Donna Haraway’s thesis in her Cyborg Manifesto. According to her, the cyborg presents a post-capitalist, post-genre and post-human horizon, given its dualities break. Done that, we will expose the “aesthetic acceleractionism” proposed by Steven Shaviro, which for him it would be the works of fiction who exaggerate and intensify the horrors of neoliberalism. To do that, we will have to pass through fundamentals of Kantian aesthetics, as well Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s conceptualization of the problem of subsumption under late capitalism. Lastly, we will try to show how the figure of the cyborg is pictured in certain science fiction movies.
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REFERÊNCIAS FILMOGRÁFICAS:
O EXTERMINADOR DO FUTURO. Direção: James Cameron. Produção: Gale Anne Hurd. Estados Unidos: Orion Pictures, 1984, 1 DVD. (107 min.)
GHOST IN THE SHELL ”“ O Fantasma do Futuro. Direção: Mamoru Oshii. Produção: Yoshimasa Mizuo; Ken Matsumoto; Ken Iyadomi; Mitsuhisa Ishikawa. Japão: Kodansha, 1995, 1 DVD. (83 min.)
ROBOCOP ”“ O Policial do Futuro. Direção: Paul Verhoeven. Produção: Arne Schmidt. Estados Unidos: Orion Pictures, 1987, 1 DVD. (102 min.)